{"id":8360,"date":"2018-03-06T13:09:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=8360"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:09:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T13:09:50","slug":"we-have-normality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/we-have-normality\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have Normality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/we-have-normality\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Anything you still can&#8217;t cope with is therefore your own problem.<\/p>\n<p>I love the English weather. In the space of 48 hours we&#8217;ve gone from sub-zero temperatures and mounds of snow to ten degrees and watery sunshine &#8211; and this being England, it has of course rained a bit as well (which fortunately has washed away the slush).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been beavering away at the workshop and have shifted a good chunk of the order backlog which built up while I was snowbound &#8211; another solid day&#8217;s work tomorrow and it&#8217;ll be cleared completely. <\/p>\n<p>Phil was also snowed in for a few days so has been ploughing through moulds like there&#8217;s no tomorrow &#8211; so in celebration of our hard work, here&#8217;s some new stuff.<\/p>\n<p>In 6mm we have more options for other <strong>Hammer&#8217;s Slammers:The Crucible<\/strong> mercenary units. The <strong>Lightning Division<\/strong> get the <strong>M9A16 Calliope<\/strong> version of the combat car, while the <strong>Waldheim Dragoons<\/strong> finally come to 6mm in the form of the M2A2 and M2A5 tank and command versions of the Icarus blower tank.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8362\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/we-have-normality\/waldheim6release\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Waldheim6Release.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Waldheim6Release\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Waldheim6Release.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Waldheim6Release.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8362\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/HammersSlammers\/Lightning%20Division%20-%206mm\/HS6-1712a.html\">HS6-1712a<\/a> &#8211; M9A16 Calliope Car &#8211; \u00a31.00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/HammersSlammers\/Waldheim%20Dragoons%20-%206mm\/HS6-1911.html\">HS6-1911<\/a> &#8211; M2A2 Blower Tank &#8211; \u00a31.50<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/HammersSlammers\/Waldheim%20Dragoons%20-%206mm\/HS6-1911a.html\">HS6-1911a<\/a> &#8211; M2A5 Command Tank &#8211; \u00a31.50<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Iw8qUTLBok?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anything you still can&#8217;t cope with is therefore your own problem. I love the English weather. In the space of 48 hours we&#8217;ve gone from sub-zero temperatures and mounds of snow to ten degrees and watery sunshine &#8211; and this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/03\/we-have-normality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,39,17,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6mm-sf","category-hammers-slammers","category-new-releases","category-updates-and-general-waffle"],"views":3734,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Waldheim6Release.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2aQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7165,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/11\/small-scale-slammers-action\/","url_meta":{"origin":8360,"position":0},"title":"Small-Scale Slammers Action","author":"Tony","date":"November 7, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Hammer's Slammers:The Crucible author (and newly-appointed Miniature Wargames editor) John Treadaway recently visited our club, Maidstone Wargames Society, again for another Slammers game - this time in 6mm. 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